I’ll never be over it. I’m nostalgic about everything. Can’t throw a piece of paper away if it has meaning 😂 now I’ll never look at being nostalgic the same, wow
I heard a report that nostalgia is positive (what) because it indicates a sense of community. Yeah a deceased community...I guess that's not negative but it sure is depressing.
Whenever I hear "One More Light", I'm reminded of that fact.
That and anything by Mike Shinoda soon after Chester passed...
I wish I could have met him.
I'm not taking that risk ever again.
I'm going to see LP next spring.
It is. If I hear a certain song or see something on TV. I feel a deep bitting pain inside. I started to miss places and people. Of course, I might be just depressed but I don't think so.
It's so true. Post-election I've been listening to music I haven't listened to since high school and i'm a hundred percent sure i'm only doing that because it's the last time I didn't think the world completely sucked.
im not solid on this but i feel like i may be getting something like nostalgia these days – after a long imperfect hard process to try to regain feelings – about a time where i was given horribly wrong medication and basically ended up mourning myself
Nostalgia always reminds me of the mad men pitch about the Kodak projector and then I realize I’m being nostalgic for the late ‘00’s and early ‘10’s when I was still in my 20’s and (erroneously) convinced that progress, while slow, was inevitable and that we could just sit back and let it happen
The last few weeks, on top of the last year, have been the final sledge hammer to the dome. I found myself nostalgic for a time when I still believed in the rule of law. I spent many years broke and struggling, working poor. But I still had some illusion to the better nature of the human experience.
I found my nostalgia to be goals I've not let go of and still want to do, things I enjoy and feel safe in or subconscious advice on how to step forward.
Very true, be thankful you don't live in Texas, it's been a party every day after the elections, even Cruz made it. As a Democrat I feel like I'm on an island in the middle of religious crazy Republicans. When people ask what's on the barbecue, I look around and make sure it isn't me.
1/2 been thinking about how I can't even remember the 1996 Pres. election because it was so boring and things were humming along so nicely I was lulled into naïveté re: how privileged & precarious it/I all really was/were. I feel like the world should have stayed how everything was in 1997 at times
2/2 but I realize how Western/Ameri-centric that perspective is and how dumb it would be to not have these devices we're talking to each other on; no ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc. Still I pine for better days we/I had in the past & hate when people insist everything was ALWAYS shitty
I'm as susceptible to it as anyone, but I try to avoid anything that exploits nostalgia. Those times are gone, and that younger me can't and shouldn't come back. The best I can do is make new good times now to feel nostalgic about later.
this is just "saudade". "saudade" is a portuguese word with no direct translation which means missing something or someone so badly it's felt in your heart, like a hole, pain or weird feeling (which could even be positive!). in Brazil it's normal to refer to nostalgia as a kind of saudade.
it's normal to feel saudade for someone who died, obviously, but also for someone who moved, who is on vacation or at work, who changed and it's not the same; for who you used to be, what you used to feel; and for specific times in your life, specially childhood, teen years and early adulthood.
Googled "nostalgia" and came up with this: Etymology. Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
"A form of mourning" is pretty much hitting it right on the head.
In 2014 we sold the home where we raised our children. It came on the market again last July. I flipped through the listing photos then wept for two days. I was unable to work for a day.
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I hate cheap nostalgia
???? Something like that
“It encompasses a sense of melancholy and wistfulness for a past that can't be recaptured.
https://www.felinfach.com/pages/hiraeth-hiraeth-meaning
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade
That and anything by Mike Shinoda soon after Chester passed...
I wish I could have met him.
I'm not taking that risk ever again.
I'm going to see LP next spring.
Love that sentence.
It really is.
Thanks for posting.
"A form of mourning" is pretty much hitting it right on the head.
Algia= pain
I never claim a witticism as my own, unless it actually is. Every once in a while, I come up with one.